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Estela, 52, lives alone and avoids contact from the outside world. One day, a small act of humanity makes her break into her neighbors house who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. During her time there, Estela rekindles her childhood and experiences an unexpected moment of intimacy, not, however, without leaving unscathed.

John, looking for the mother in Cuba he hasn't seen in thirty years, is surprised to discover just her corpse minus her head, and further to find that the rest of his family there, who are stranger than he thought, are not all that helpful in his quest.

A hardy troupe of circus performers is cleared by the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security and the Pentagon in order to take their act to the home of one of the most notorious prisons in the world, Guantanamo Bay Cuba. These singers, dancers, jugglers, magicians, aerialists and musicians have no idea what awaits them when they arrive at a place everyone has heard of but very few know much about. They soon discover things are not quite what they assumed. During processing a soldier tells them 'Guantanamo Bay, it's a great place to raise your kids.' They were entering a giant time capsule like a surreal, small town right out of the 'Twilight Zone' that desperately needed an infusion of positive energy.

The series begins with the end of high school, where a group of wealthy friends who possibly live in El Vedado (not specified), meet to make a pact of eternal friendship. They all plan to go camping this summer with the group's main teacher. Another group of friends from another school in a more humble neighborhood, do not have time for pacts or trivialities, and are immersed, especially one of them, in the problems of alcoholic parents, they also go camping with their teacher. On the bus that takes them, problems begin between groups of young people of different social status. Upon arriving at the campsite, new characters appear who interact with the boys and the social differences and criteria are manifested more strongly, but a feeling of solidarity begins to emerge between them which later transforms into a nascent friendship, due to the ties that they have formed in the middle of exuberant nature.

From the Australian outback to Music City USA, a child guitar prodigy dedicates his life to become the world's greatest acoustic guitarist, even as revelations of dark family secrets send him into a battle with addiction that threatens to destroy his career, his family and his life.

Cuba, 1961: Thousands of teenage girls join the National Campaign for Literacy to help teach their country to read and write. Traveling to remote mountain regions, often against the will of their parents, they lived with their students for up to one year, teaching at night and on weekends. Over 700,000 illiterate adults learned to read & write that year. And the young teachers lives would never be the same...

Each day at Havana's "Colón" Cemetery a mass exhumation procedure takes place.

A life rampant, street level story of mentorship and everyday heroism in tough circumstances. An inner city coach's son, estranged in his youth from his father, spends five years on ball fields in inner city Oakland and Havana, following the lives of two extraordinary youth baseball coaches, Roscoe in Oakland and Nicolas in Havana. The coaches meet on videotape and two years of red tape later, Coach Roscoe and nine Oakland players travel to Havana to play Coach Nicolas' team. For one week, the players and coaches eat, dance, swim, argue and play baseball together. But when the parent of an Oakland player is murdered back home, it brings back the inescapable reality and challenges of life in an American inner city.

You can't just make a puff piece in an active military dictatorship.

The author establishes a communication with his cancer-sick mother through text messages from Cuba. During his stay in the island the author works on an research for a possible documentary, he is impacted by a series of places, displacements and intimate situations that remind him of the path of his own self.

A group of children in the Cuban countryside, are given the opportunity of shooting the movie of their dreams with a VHS camcorder.

Nico is a sound man who listens to and records conversations of war soldiers from the past, but when he hears the voice of Andrés, a soldier who has survived several wars, a new empathy is discovered by him, so he decides to make himself heard by Andrés. Despite his attempts, Nico does not succeed, however, listening to the death of Andrés, he experiences the inhuman and the real pain in wars.

A look into the lives of a group of old women who live in a home in Havana. Their bodies, their voices and tempo, their obsessions.

With doubts about whether she must leave or not her country, young Cuban makes a trip around the island of Cuba to deeply know her homeland.

Documentary about the iconic portrait of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara by Cuban photographer Alberto Diaz Gutiérrez (known as 'Korda').

An American woman's chance encounter with Fidel Castro leads her on a personal journey to uncover truths behind the tumultuous and often clandestine relationship marking a half-century of United States and Cuban foreign policy.

The History of the Cuban Revolution through the personal experiences of writer Rafael Alcides, a once well known poet who became Nobody.

An intimate look into the world of a teenager on the verge of moving out of Cuba.

Two brothers and their elderly mother live isolated from everything. The loud squealing of the pigs helps things stay calm.

This documentary feature looks at the work and lives of twelve contemporary Cuban artists, living in Havana today. Through in-depth interviews, the film covers a diverse range of subjects and issues, from supply shortages and constant blackouts ('apagones') to family life, love, sex and music. Visiting each person in their home and studio, the film explores the varying styles, techniques, themes, philosophies and ideas present in their work. Through this is revealed the many obstacles and difficulties that are faced on a daily basis and the feelings each person has towards the place they call home.

A documentary about Puerto Rican iconic revolutionary, Ramon Emeterio Betances, that takes us to a journey to France, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Puerto Rico. He lived in and influenced important revolutionaries in all those countries. Even though he is well known in all of these countries, he is unknown in his own country of Puerto Rico.

A young woman from the country has a son from a young man of a rich family. The rich grandfather of the man, owner of the farm, takes the child away to educate him. A few years later the young woman marries a poor farmer. She rejects the child she has with him and only understands she loves him when the rival brothers fight against each other in a duel.